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Somebody brought up an old thread about burning tires. I had to laugh at it and thought about adding to it, but I never burned tires in the woodburnerI have heated with some crazy fuel through the years and thought I'd share.
Being last years was such a mild winter, I had 2 pallets full of covered mixed wood from last season. I store my wood under a 80ft highpine tree. Kind of a natural weather sheild. Well that tree attracts lots of Red squirrels and 2 stacks of split wood attracts them even more. Last summer was a banner year for nuts around my place. Theres 2 walnut trees across the road, and a large beech in my yard. So the squirrels were busy and they loaded up my pile of wood with nutshells and pinecone pedals to the point that there was 7, 5 gallon buckets full. The stuff was dry because its under rubber and I had to get rid of the stuff so I to figure why not burn it. Short story long, I burned 3 buckets today and lasted 5 hrs and kept the exhaust temp at 350 degrees. I have 4 more buckets to burn. I call my new fuel squirrel mulch.
Another dandy I had to burn this year was an old oak and poplar I think desk. It was in a garage that my freind is renting an he wanted it gone. What the heck. The electric chain an 15 minutes and I had over 1 1/2 wheelbarrows full.
I've brought up on here before that at one time I was quite a fur trapper. If time allows and fur prices are good, I still do. Well one of the best fuels I have found that turns into just waste for me is Raccoon carcuses. I was turned onto this by a fur buyer that was in my area years ago. He had an outdoor boiler and he heated a large house his shop and another out building that way. I trapped last year and tried it. They burn like oil. very hot, to the point that the draft had to be turned down low. I cleaned the chimney after a weekend of carcus burning and it showed nothing unusual. The nice part of it was when you were outside, it just smelled like chichen cooking.
Those are my last 3 I can think of. What have you burned other than wood?
Being last years was such a mild winter, I had 2 pallets full of covered mixed wood from last season. I store my wood under a 80ft highpine tree. Kind of a natural weather sheild. Well that tree attracts lots of Red squirrels and 2 stacks of split wood attracts them even more. Last summer was a banner year for nuts around my place. Theres 2 walnut trees across the road, and a large beech in my yard. So the squirrels were busy and they loaded up my pile of wood with nutshells and pinecone pedals to the point that there was 7, 5 gallon buckets full. The stuff was dry because its under rubber and I had to get rid of the stuff so I to figure why not burn it. Short story long, I burned 3 buckets today and lasted 5 hrs and kept the exhaust temp at 350 degrees. I have 4 more buckets to burn. I call my new fuel squirrel mulch.
Another dandy I had to burn this year was an old oak and poplar I think desk. It was in a garage that my freind is renting an he wanted it gone. What the heck. The electric chain an 15 minutes and I had over 1 1/2 wheelbarrows full.
I've brought up on here before that at one time I was quite a fur trapper. If time allows and fur prices are good, I still do. Well one of the best fuels I have found that turns into just waste for me is Raccoon carcuses. I was turned onto this by a fur buyer that was in my area years ago. He had an outdoor boiler and he heated a large house his shop and another out building that way. I trapped last year and tried it. They burn like oil. very hot, to the point that the draft had to be turned down low. I cleaned the chimney after a weekend of carcus burning and it showed nothing unusual. The nice part of it was when you were outside, it just smelled like chichen cooking.
Those are my last 3 I can think of. What have you burned other than wood?
